Squad leader

It was past seven o'clock in the evening when Jiang Tian arrived home. He wandered around J City for a long time, went to the Sundial Square in Wetland Park, went to Experimental Middle School, and went to Yang Guofu, where the two of them often ate.

Lao Jiang went to bed early after eating.

Wang Ruiqin sat in his room and waited for him for a long time.

Jiang Tian glanced at the phone, "It's out of battery and turned off, Mom made you worry."

"Come here for me!"

Jiang Tian didn't hide, and sat on the edge of the bed with his head down, waiting for the storm.

"What happened to your neck?"

"Accidentally fell."

Wang Ruiqin stood up abruptly, "I'm not telling the truth to your mother anymore, huh?!"

Jiang Tian had a terrible headache, "Mom, don't scold me today, I have a terrible headache, can you let me rest before scolding?"

Wang Ruiqin suddenly felt that she didn't know her son anymore. What happened all day today was as fantastic as a movie.

"You first tell me clearly what's going on between you and Ding Yang!"

Jiang Tian took three tablets of ibuprofen and swallowed them, and ate up another tablet. He threw the empty pill tablet into the trash can.

There are already four boxes of ibuprofen in the trash can.

Wang Ruiqin couldn't express her distress, "What's wrong with you every day? If you don't feel well, tell your mother, didn't you listen to me the most before?"

"Mom, it's okay, just think I'm hysterical from sleeping too much during the day, it's okay, it's really okay, Ding Yang and I have nothing, and we won't even be classmates in the future, we don't know each other."

Jiang Tianyue lowered his voice, holding his head in discomfort. Since he was a boarder in a private school in elementary school, he has been used to reporting good news but not bad news. He has been a sensible and good boy since he was a child.

Wang Ruiqin instantly remembered the summer in Jiang Tian's fifth grade.

Jiang Tian is an obedient child who has been reassuring since he was a child. He has never needed his parents to pick him up since he was in a private school in the third grade.

A doll who is not as tall as a sapling takes the bus twice every Friday with her schoolbag on her back and the key to go home and open the door. After returning home, she obediently washes her clothes and cleans up the pots and pans.

I remember that day Wang Ruiqin told Jiang Tian to pick him up after school on Friday, but he misremembered the time. When he got to the classroom, there was no one in the classroom, and the children from other people's families had already happily followed their parents away.

Jiang Tian stood by the window with a small schoolbag on his back and looked out, his eyes were tearful, but he tried his best not to cry.

Wang Ruiqin sighed, "Cry if you want to."

Wang Ruiqin embraced Jiang Tian's shoulders, and leaned Jiang Tian's head on her shoulders. Only then did she realize that Jiang Tianyuan was thinner than he looked, especially during the month of vacation. It was to relax after the exam, but Jiang Tian's spirit was always on the verge of collapse.

Jiang Tian twitched and suppressed his crying, Wang Ruiqin patted him on the back to give him comfort, just like when he was a child.

The mother and son hadn't spoken so closely for a long, long time.

"Your grandma told me a lot. I... can't accept it. Mom is afraid that you will be looked down upon and bullied in the future. If your father and I are gone, our baby will be bullied by others. What to do, but if you really like it..." Wang Ruiqin sighed, "Go as you please."

"mom……?"

"Mom, what mother!" Wang Ruiqin blinked impatiently. Jiang Tian ran out of the house in the morning, and she was too embarrassed to look at his grandma, but the old lady turned to comfort her with a sigh.

……

"If he can tell you, it means that he has made up his mind to commit crimes..."

Wang Ruiqin couldn't hold back, "Mom, I'll go back and tell him, their kids are just playing around, don't listen to his nonsense."

Grandma shook her head, "You just listen to me and leave this matter alone. Remember what I told you about the kid from your second uncle's family, and both of his classmates are gone. They insisted on forcing the two kids to separate. The results are all gone. When the person was fished out of the lake, two hands could not be separated. Your second concubine almost killed your second uncle. I saw that Tian'er was more stubborn than that child, so just listen to me, that If the children are reliable, you can let them go, at worst, you will have more sons, life is their own, so don't stop you..."

"But……"

"It's nothing! I'm just a promising nephew. If there's anything wrong with him, I'll crash into your grave!"

……

The old lady became stubborn and couldn't pull the eight horses back.

It seems that the stubborn temper in this family is hereditary.

Wang Ruiqin let go, "If you two can go on, let's be together, and there are mothers who say it's not good to block you!"

Jiang Tian looked at Wang Ruiqin in disbelief, and trembled in his throat, "Mom..."

People are always like this, no matter how strong they are, they will have a limit, and they will explode if they can't hold on.

Jiang Tian hammered his head uncomfortably, and slapped himself hard, "Mom, I was wrong, I was really wrong, I am not a good boy, I made you lose face."

Wang Ruiqin held her grown-up child crying in her arms distressedly, "You are my mother's pride, and you will always be."

"Mom, I'm so sick, I'm so sick."

Jiang Tian's cries amplified little by little, this was the first time he could cry freely, only at home could he have no scruples, his family would always be his backer.

Wang Ruiqin watched Jiang Tian fall asleep with his eyes closed after crying, turned the air conditioner to the sleep mode, covered him with a small quilt, wet a hot towel, and put on his red eyes for a while, watching the child cry faintly Yes, she sighed with a gloomy complexion, went back to the room, put on her reading glasses, turned on the computer, and started stamping with one finger, very unskilled Baidu.

The admission notices were all in the hands of the students one after another, and several class committees in the class organized a teacher appreciation banquet.

The teacher appreciation banquet was half a month away from the turmoil, and it happened that the wounds on his body had basically healed.

Jiang Tian is the class monitor and Zhou Yuwen is the study committee member. Together, the two of them booked the restaurant and ordered the dishes. They made an appointment at the time and place and invited Lao An, Song Shuai, and Geography Lao Wang to come over.

There were a total of [-] or so students. Some students had already gone on a trip and declined, and some were unwilling to participate because of their poor test scores. The [-] or so students gathered together were considered the majority.

The teachers divided several tables and sat with the students.

There are fewer boys in the liberal arts class, one table for boys and two tables for girls.

Inevitably, Ding Yang and Jiang Tian sat at the same table.

Zhang Mengyao has a boyish personality, so he sat directly at the boy's table, and sat with Zhou Yuwen without hesitation. The students around him were calm, and anyone with a discerning eye could see it. Now that the exam was over, Lao An simply opened his eyes. One eye is closed and the other is closed.

Everyone reported their own universities, Zhou Yuwen went to N University, 604 points, no point wasted, both Zhang Mengyao and Zhang Lei stayed in Shandong to study, Zhang Mengyao was in S University, Zhang Lei went to H University.

Seeing the cubs he raised were sent to the university one by one, Lao An burst into tears.

"Good, good, good! You are the best class I have ever led."

Zhang Lei continued: "Teacher, how do I remember that you always said that we were the most noisy class you have ever led?"

"Hey, it's like I can't control you after graduation! Zhang Lei, you are itchy!"

Zhang Lei jumped up to pick up vegetables for Lao An, "Teacher, you eat fish, you eat meat, and you eat potatoes!"

It made the people around laugh.

Zhou Yuwen and Jiang Tian took their classmates together to toast the teacher to express their gratitude. Everyone drank fruit juice. Lao An scrambled to serve a few bottles of beer, and the boys all poured a glass. drunk.

When Zhang Lei was pouring wine for Jiang Tian, ​​Ding Yang, who had been silent all this time, suddenly stood up and cut off his beard, "The squad leader just finished the operation, so you can't drink." He changed his own juice, "Drink the juice."

Zhang Lei stared blankly at the awkward atmosphere between the two of them. They were holding the same glass of wine at the same time, and Jiang Tian refused to accept the juice that Ding Yang handed over.

Zhou Yuwen smoothed things over in embarrassment, took Ding Yang's juice and put it in front of Jiang Tian, ​​"That's right, the squad leader has just been discharged from the hospital, let's drink the juice."

With Zhang Lei as a living treasure, even if Jiang Tian and Ding Yang didn't fart in silence at this table, the atmosphere was still passable.

Before the routine breakup, everyone gathered at the bridge of a moat in J City at the entrance of the hotel. Zhang Mengyao and Jiang Tian and Zhou Yuwen greeted everyone to line up, and reserved a seat for themselves in the last row, and then asked the hotel waiter to give them a seat. Everyone takes pictures.

A group of people stood together, not wearing school uniforms, but they still couldn't hide their youthful and childishness.

Ding Yang changed to the outermost seat while no one was paying attention. When Jiang Tian entered the team to take pictures, there was no other place to choose except the empty seat next to Ding Yang.

He gritted his teeth and stood next to Ding Yang, a short distance away.

The waiter brother took Jiang Tian's mobile phone and adjusted the focal length, "Come on, students have a smile, eggplant!"

The students grinned and looked at the camera. The moment the shutter was pressed, Ding Yang suddenly came over and clasped Jiang Tian's shoulders, pressing him firmly into his arms.

The waiter brother enthusiastically helped to take a dozen photos, and Jiang Tian picked a few on the spot and sent them to the class with his eyes open.

The teachers reminded me to be safe, and asked if there was anyone who drove back along the way, and all the people dispersed.

Zhou Yuwen took advantage of the time when he was going to the bathroom, and pulled Jiang Tian to whisper: "What's the matter with you two? You two have been arguing since you were on vacation?"

Jiang Tian smiled wryly, "There's no quarrel, it's just a breakup. The two men won't go far together."

"Are you kidding me?" The shock on Zhou Yuwen's face could be bought at a price, because the two were tired of going to school. If the two broke up, they would still believe in fucking love!

Jiang Tian's expression became more and more uncomfortable, "Don't ask, that's it, you and Zhang Mengyao can get along well, and leave me alone."

Zhou Yuwen looked at his unwillingness to mention it, and stopped asking, "No matter what, you will always be my squad leader. Let's meet again when we arrive in Beijing. If you have something to say, brother will be here right away!"

Jiang Tian punched him heartily, "Success, brother!"

The two said to each other to be safe, Zhou Yuwen and Zhang Mengyao went on a date together, Jiang Tian came out of the bathroom and was looking at Ding Yang leaning against the door frame and playing with his mobile phone.

His complexion looks much better, his hair is neatly arranged, and he wears a sports wristband on his right hand to block the wound. I don't know how it is healing. He looks tall, thin and straight just wearing a T-shirt casually.

This kind of person is born to shine, and they are the focus wherever they are placed.

Jiang Tian lowered his head guiltily, pretending not to see anyone and wanting to go around.

Ding Yang stood in front of him as if on purpose.

Ding Yang said with a grumpy face: "Isn't it possible that you can't even be a classmate?"

Jiang Tian always enjoyed his carefree tone in the past, but now it seems very ironic.

Jiang Tian straightened his waist, hiding for the rest of his life is not the case, raised his eyebrows and said: "We are classmates, nothing else."

Ding Yang gritted his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't help but soften his words, "Squad leader, can I still call you that?"

"Of course," Jiang Tian remembered what Zhou Yuwen said just now, "Everyone is in Beijing, if you have something to say, brother will be there right away."

Ding Yang's throat slid up and down twice, and he spit out a monosyllable for a long time, "Okay."

"Go back, pay attention to safety on the road."

Ding Yang took a breath, "Squad leader, let me see you off. I'll drop by. After all, you are one of the few...friends I have been in the experiment for a year."

Jiang Tian originally wanted to refuse, but seeing Ding Yang's expression on the verge of crying, he couldn't help but nodded.

Walking along the moat, it happens to be the west gate of Ding Yang apartment complex.

How ironic, to part ways in this once tender place.

"Don't give it away, let's stop here."

Ding Yang gritted his teeth, "Jiang Tian, ​​you are really ruthless, you are ruthless to everyone."

"Oh, really?" Jiang Tian raised his eyebrows casually, that kind of attitude that has nothing to do with him is the most hurtful.

"When I was memorizing my composition before, I remembered that there was an article saying that people who have seen the sun can't bear the darkness, but you gave me the light, and then took it back. Sometimes I even doubt that the past year Was it a dream I had, you woke up clearly, and I died in a daze."

Jiang Tian was silent, opened his mouth but couldn't speak.

Too many words will be lost.

After a while, Jiang Tian said: "Don't send it off, just come here."

Jiang Tian walked away with his hands in his pockets without looking back, the nails in his pockets were almost embedded in his palms.

"Jiang Tian!" Ding Yang suddenly stopped him, Jiang Tian paused, but didn't turn his head, "I'm not good at Chinese, and I don't have much education, you've taught me for a year, but I haven't made much progress, and I can't say anything polite. "

"I just wish you good health, all the best, happiness... happiness."

Jiang Tian turned back stiffly, and said with a smile: "I also wish you good health, good luck and happiness in everything."

Twelve words, Ding Yang gritted his teeth and uttered blood, every word has a hole, pierced into the hearts of the people and bled.

Jiang Tian threw his back to Ding Yang step by step, the hateful thing is that this road is straight, there is not even a turn, and there is nowhere to hide.

Jiang Tian could only leave his back to Ding Yang, he could not look back, nor could he look back.

After a long journey, there was finally a turning point.

Jiang Tian leaned his back against the wall, gritted his teeth and held back his tears to keep himself from crying.

There was no strength in his body at all. He arched his back and looked for a breathing position. His chest felt uncomfortable as if it had been cut open. He squatted on the ground in pain and slapped himself hard, "Don't cry!"

He took two breaths of fresh air and stood up step by step, step by step, very firmly, and left Ding Yang.

Just let me be alone, there is nothing wrong with being alone, anyway, I have been alone for so many years, and now I just returned to the original appearance.

One person is nothing... a big deal.

At most, after seeing the light, he fell into the darkness again, and he couldn't stand it anymore, and there was no one to talk to and rely on.

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